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Tishomingo blues

"Dennis Lenahan the high diver would tell people that if you put a fifty-cent piece on the floor and looked down at it, that's what the tank looked like from the top of that eighty-foot steel ladder." Things are going along okay with Dennis' gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, "the Casino Capital of the South," until the day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob hit - Dixie style. Turns out there was a second witness, Robert Taylor from Detroit, who carries a picture of his great-granddaddy's lynching along with a gun in a briefcase and listens to Delta blues while cruising the back roads of Mississippi in his black Jaguar. Robert works for a man from up north who has come to play General Grant in a Civil War battle reenactment, and like Dennis, Robert has a death-defying act of his own: he's sleeping with his boss's wife. Adding further intrigue are the women. Vernice lures Dennis with the whitest thighs he's ever seen.

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  • "Tishomingo blues : a novel"@en
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  • ""Dennis Lenahan the high diver would tell people that if you put a fifty-cent piece on the floor and looked down at it, that's what the tank looked like from the top of that eighty-foot steel ladder." Things are going along okay with Dennis' gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, "the Casino Capital of the South," until the day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob hit - Dixie style. Turns out there was a second witness, Robert Taylor from Detroit, who carries a picture of his great-granddaddy's lynching along with a gun in a briefcase and listens to Delta blues while cruising the back roads of Mississippi in his black Jaguar. Robert works for a man from up north who has come to play General Grant in a Civil War battle reenactment, and like Dennis, Robert has a death-defying act of his own: he's sleeping with his boss's wife. Adding further intrigue are the women. Vernice lures Dennis with the whitest thighs he's ever seen."@en
  • "Warned by the local Dixie underworld to keep silent after witnessing a murder, daredevil diver Dennis Lenahan is recruited by Detroit gangster Robert Taylor for a showdown that takes place during a Civil War reenactment."
  • "A performing high-diver at a Mississippi casino witnesses a mob murder, while his con man friend seems to have an elaborate scheme up his sleeve."@en
  • "High diver Dennis Lenahan is about to perform his regular stunt of diving into a small water tank from the roof of Tishomingo Lodge when, way below, he sees a guy getting killed. He has stumbled into one hell of a scene."@en
  • "Enter Dennis Lenahan, the coolest guy ever to earn his living by diving 80 feet into a nine-foot-deep tank. But even high-diving hipsters can get mixed up with the wrong people, as Dennis does when he witnesses the Dixie Mafia carry out a murder. Throw in a slick con man from Detroit, a crooked sheriff and other odd-balls-- then let the action climax at a Civil War reenactment-- and this books is vintage, laugh-out loud Leonard."@en
  • "Enter Dennis Lenahan, the coolest guy ever to earn his living by diving 80 feet into a nine-foot-deep tank. But even high-diving hipsters can get mixed up with the wrong people, as Dennis does when he witnesses the Dixie Mafia carry out a murder. Throw in a slick con man from Detroit, a crooked sheriff and other odd-balls-- then let the action climax at a Civil War reenactment-- and this books is vintage, laugh-out loud Leonard."
  • "Tishomingo blues is an entertaining novel of action and intrigue as two men witness a mob hit and as a result find themselves drawn into one dangerous escapade after another."
  • "Dennis Lenahan is a professional high diver, currently making a living at the Tishomingo Lodge and Casino near the mighty Mississippi by diving off the top of an eighty-foot ladder into a nine-foot tank of water. However, when Dennis witnesses a murder from his perch, life gets shaky. Then he meets Robert Taylor, a smooth talking gangster from Detroit. Robert takes Dennis under his wing..."
  • "At Mississippi's Tishomingo Lodge & Casino, performing high-diver Dennis Lenahan witnesses a mob murder. Meanwhile, Dennis's friend, Detroit con man Robert Johnson, seems to have an elaborate scheme up his sleeve -- a scheme that involves Dennis, the mob, and an upcoming Civil War battle reenactment that promises to throw the Lodge into a tizzy."
  • "At Mississippi's Tishomingo Lodge & Casino, performing high-diver Dennis Lenahan witnesses a mob murder. Meanwhile, Dennis's friend, Detroit con man Robert Johnson, seems to have an elaborate scheme up his sleeve -- a scheme that involves Dennis, the mob, and an upcoming Civil War battle reenactment that promises to throw the Lodge into a tizzy."@en
  • "Dennis Lenahan is a high-diver who's currently making a living at the Tishomingo Lodge and Casino near the Mighty Missippi by diving from the top of an eighty-foot ladder into a nine-foot tank of water. His pleasure in what he does is spoiled when he witnesses a murder from his platform in the sky."
  • "Things are going okay with Dennis' gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino, Tunica, Mississippi, until the day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob hit. A second witness, Robert Taylor, works for a man from up north who has come to play General Grant in a Civil War battle reenactment. Adding further intrigue are the women. But it's the scams Taylor plays that move the action through all kinds of unexpected twists and turns."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"
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  • "Tishomingo blues"@en
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  • "Tishomingo Blues Library Edition"@en
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